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I love my ken onion shun chef knife, it feels great in my hand sharp as can be . Ken your the man, I will go one better I like the onion better then the Kramer, I'm looking to cell my brand new bob Kramer Z 10 inch chef knife 360 if anyone is interested.

I love my ken onion shun chef knife, it feels great in my hand sharp as can be . Ken your the man, I will go one better I like the onion better then the Kramer, I'm looking to cell my brand new bob Kramer Z 10 inch chef knife 360 if anyone is interested.

I love my ken onion shun chef knife, it feels great in my hand sharp as can be . Ken your the man, I will go one better I like the onion better then the Kramer, I'm looking to cell my brand new bob Kramer Z 10 inch chef knife 360 if anyone is interested.

Ummm...

The AI does not love you, nor does it hate you, but you are made out of atoms it might find useful for something else. - Eliezer Yudkowsky

the profile of that knife makes my wrist hurt, just looking at it. I really love the part where she is describing the knife as having no dragging or tearing, while cutting an eggplant in which it's clearly dragging a lot. Nice looking espresso machine, though!

Originally Posted by brainsausage

It didn't look that 'easy' to cut through that onion based on how her guide hand was shaking to hold said onion in place. Truth in advertising...

Agreed on both points. I've never seen any of the professionals around here who push cut have to draw the knife back like that just to make sure there's no connecting product left. Welcome to the world of pregnant belly knives. On the onion cut...yeah, guide hand shaking and a blade that won't bite enough not to slip off...and then steer out once its in the cut. I could see that with some types of product, maybe (big maybe?)...but an onion?

I'll pass.

Cool finish though. Kinda.

I try to be the man I am..in times of broken lives. Shattered dreams and plans..standing up to fight. Pressures and demands..staring at the knife. Holding in your hands..

Dunno, I was wondering the same thing. Whatever they are, when you spend 3-4hrs hacking at them w/ a Shun, you get and owie on your pinkie finger. Thank Jebus Ken came along with this new series, which I'm sure will solve this problem. They may not look so good when cutting an onion in that video (ironic), but I'm sure that they will work REALLY well on "mats", which, once you become an expert in a few years, you'll discover are the true bain of the kitchen pro.

I was at a large, local independant kitchen store (kitchen window in MSP) and was surprised to see that they had a pretty large selection of the new Onion Rain knives.
It was near the end of the day and I didn't want to waste too much of the staff's time, so I didn't take many pics, but I did give them a pretty thorough once over.

Sometimes I really hate being right, but pretty much everything that I feared these knives to be was confirmed: horrible profiles (with the exception of the regular paring; they didnt have the reverse model): ridiculous handles, and almost meat-cleaver thick behind the edge.

To Lamson's credit; it looks like they did a good job executing a terrible design. Every contour of the turd handles where smooth, symmetrical, well finished and well attached to the blades. Neither the spines or choils were eased, but the weird "rain" finish was executed cleanly, and the blades all appeared true/strait and the distal tapers where even. As I said, the grinds where thick and ugly, but I have no idea if that was to Ken's spec or not, but if he got so many (much simpler) parts of the design so wrong, I'm willing to assume that he didn't know what the grind and thickness behind the edge should look like either.

These knives are worse than the Shuns.

This was perhaps one of the strongest emotional reactions I've ever had to seeing a knife and it was certainly the most negative. Seeing these knives actually made me both sad and pissed off. All of the elements are there to make a game-changing line of American knives: Great materials, skilled manufacturing, a famous name, great distribution / sales network, and it was all ruined by stupid, ignorant, arrogant, wrong-headedness. What a ******* joke and what an inexcusable waste of an opportunity that much more deserving designers would have killed for.
Please avoid giving this ass-clown any money.